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A Saudi woman lazes at home, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

ARTHUR, Olivia

Written on the back of this work is: “Intimate photographs take us into worlds and spaces that we would not normally be able to see. They take us into an emotional space that is private to show us something personal about the people in them.

In Saudi Arabia, it is very unusual for outsiders to be allowed into Saudi homes at all, so I was very lucky to be able to see these private worlds. Photographing them was very sensitive: they do not want people to see their personal spaces, and the women, particularly, are very private. Yet the women I met wanted the outside world to see how they live, to know that their reality is often not as different from the rest of the world as we may think.

A paradoxical challenge for me was to find ways to show these scenes whilst also protecting the identity and privacy of the women, to be intimate and yet not to fully reveal their faces.” — Olivia Arthur

A Saudi woman lazes at home, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Image: © Olivia Arthur / Magnum Photos / Amgueddfa Cymru - Museum Wales
For any licensing and reproduction use of this image, please contact Magnum Photos: licensingall@magnumphotos.com
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Collection Area

Art

Item Number

NMW A 55461

Creation/Production

ARTHUR, Olivia
Date: 2009 –

Acquisition

Gift, 25/4/2017
Donated by David Hurn, 2017

Measurements

h(cm) image size:14
h(cm)
w(cm) image size:14
w(cm)
h(cm) paper size:15.2
w(cm) paper size:15.1

Techniques

Digital Pigment Print

Material

Paper

Location

In store

Categories

Ffotograff | Photograph Gweithiau ar bapur | Works on paper Celf Gain | Fine Art CADP content CADP random Menyw, Dynes | Woman Ymlacio | Relaxing Dodrefn a chelfi | Furniture and interiors Cysur | Comfort Artist Benywaidd | Woman Artist Artistiaid y 21ain ganrif | Active in the 21st Century
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